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Preview – Bored to Death 1×1-1×2

16 September 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Bored to Death

In the US: Sundays, 9.30pm, HBO. Starts 20th September

Looking for the one – 30? (Manhattan)

Date: 2009-09-16, 7:36AM EDT

Nice looking, gentle, Jewish non-practicing Vegan, writer, stuck on second novel, just separated from girlfriend. Bored. Will offer services as unlicenced private detective to find missing persons, check on fidelity, etc, for $100/day. Looking for like-minded women for friendship, more? Must like pot, white wine, Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely.

  • Location: Nyc residents
  • it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 9376906382

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Fall TV previews: White Collar

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I’ve already given you some previews of the new shows coming to US TV this Fall (). However, there’s a lovely YouTube channel that collects together all the trailers for all the shows, including the returning ones, in one big, easy-to-navigate place. Perusing it, I found the following exciting trailer for a show that I haven’t really touched on yet: White Collar – a new show starting on the USA Network about an FBI agent and a conman who team up:

Wednesday’s Lucifer’s Dollhouse news

16 September 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

  • talks about writing for Who [vid]

Film

Theatre

US TV

  • Greg Malins and Arianna Huffington working on congressional sitcom
  • Ron Howard working on IRS comedy for Fox
  • Ray Wise to join Dollhouse
  • CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY to do a in November
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Review: Gossip Girl 3×1

15 September 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Blair and Serena in Gossip Girl 3x1

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, The CW
In the UK: ITV2 again

When Gossip Girl first popped up on our screens, it had a certain something. Okay, it was aimed at teenage girls and was about ridiculously rich people having ridiculously privileged educations and behaving like spoilt brats. But it was sweet, it had its heart in its right, there were some decent male and adult characters, the dialogue was witty, and it was actually quite clever.

Over the next two seasons, it became the must-watch show for teenage girls and indeed older women, keen to find a Sex and the City replacement, as well as a few men. However, as it went on, things became a little sillier. Although the producers promised they weren’t going to make the same mistakes they made with The OC, it all started to go wrong. Ridiculous plots and sub-plots started to crop up (Jenny’s stab at a fashion business, for example); everyone started to play ‘musical boyfriends’, yo-yoing between them all without any real rhyme or reason; and soon the cast had forgotten it was a drama and began mugging it for all it was worth.

So have the producers taken advantage of the summer break to take stock, regroup and come up with some storylines that don’t want to hit your head against a wall at the stupidity of them all?

I’ll give you three guesses. You’ll only need one.

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More Heroes Redemption trailers: behind the scenes

15 September 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Another day, another Heroes trailer, it seems. Today, though, we have two behind-the-scenes videos, one that’s been included on the Heroes: Season 3 Blu-Ray disc, the other just sort of bandying around the web. The first is quite interesting, have some good interviews and tell us stuff we didn’t know before; the second is just showing how certain scenes were shot.

Remember: Heroes – Redemption starts next Monday on NBC at eight. God knows when it’s going to be showing in Britain.